<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Abhinav Bhatia — Writing</title><description>Cloud architect and tech lead at Google. I turn enterprise migration agreements into running workloads — and build the AI agents that get us there faster.</description><link>https://abhinavbhatia.co.uk/</link><item><title>One Calculator, Four Front Doors: Building an AI‑Native TCO Tool for Databricks on Google Cloud</title><link>https://abhinavbhatia.co.uk/writing/one-calculator-four-front-doors/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://abhinavbhatia.co.uk/writing/one-calculator-four-front-doors/</guid><description>How I turned a spreadsheet into a chat agent, an interactive form, and a live dashboard — using open agent standards on Google Cloud.</description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Agents</category><category>ADK</category><category>MCP</category><category>Databricks</category><category>TCO</category></item><item><title>Starting a writing habit, in public</title><link>https://abhinavbhatia.co.uk/writing/starting-a-writing-habit-in-public/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://abhinavbhatia.co.uk/writing/starting-a-writing-habit-in-public/</guid><description>Eight years of migration notes have gone into documents about four people read. Here&apos;s the plan to fix that.</description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Meta</category></item><item><title>Learning Cloud through GCP — Part 1: What is Cloud ?</title><link>https://abhinavbhatia.co.uk/writing/learning-cloud-part-1-what-is-cloud/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://abhinavbhatia.co.uk/writing/learning-cloud-part-1-what-is-cloud/</guid><description>Cloud is an outsourcing model, not a buzzword — explained through a utility connection and a vending machine.</description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Cloud fundamentals</category><category>GCP</category><category>Series</category></item><item><title>Learning Cloud through GCP — Part 2: How can I consume Cloud ?</title><link>https://abhinavbhatia.co.uk/writing/learning-cloud-part-2-how-can-i-consume-cloud/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://abhinavbhatia.co.uk/writing/learning-cloud-part-2-how-can-i-consume-cloud/</guid><description>The nine layers of a software application, and how shared responsibility slices them into IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, FaaS and the rest.</description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Cloud fundamentals</category><category>GCP</category><category>Series</category></item><item><title>Learning Cloud through GCP — Part 3: Where do I compute on cloud ?</title><link>https://abhinavbhatia.co.uk/writing/learning-cloud-part-3-where-do-i-compute/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://abhinavbhatia.co.uk/writing/learning-cloud-part-3-where-do-i-compute/</guid><description>VMs, Kubernetes, serverless and event-driven functions — choosing where your code actually runs, and what each choice costs you.</description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Cloud fundamentals</category><category>GCP</category><category>Series</category></item><item><title>Learning Cloud through GCP — Part 4: Where do I store my data on Cloud ?</title><link>https://abhinavbhatia.co.uk/writing/learning-cloud-part-4-where-do-i-store-my-data/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://abhinavbhatia.co.uk/writing/learning-cloud-part-4-where-do-i-store-my-data/</guid><description>OLTP vs OLAP, SQL vs NoSQL, file vs block vs object — how to pick the right place to put your data.</description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Cloud fundamentals</category><category>GCP</category><category>Series</category></item><item><title>Learning Cloud through GCP — Part 5: How do I connect to my cloud ?</title><link>https://abhinavbhatia.co.uk/writing/learning-cloud-part-5-how-do-i-connect/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://abhinavbhatia.co.uk/writing/learning-cloud-part-5-how-do-i-connect/</guid><description>Load balancers, DNS, CDN, WAF and VPC — the networking and security constructs that tie everything together.</description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Cloud fundamentals</category><category>GCP</category><category>Series</category></item></channel></rss>